0.phoneArena23 Sep 2013, 11:08posted on

We've been there hundreds of times already: a hot new gadget is announced, the crowd applauds, and then comes the long wait until the product actually hits the shelves. And if you've got your mind set on getting a Surface 2 tablet, then you'll be able to grab one in no less than a month from now. The Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 release date is set for October 22, with online pre-orders for both models scheduled to begin at...

The Surface Pro is essentially a Ultra book in a tablet form factor.. Ultra books cost well over $1000, so how is this to expensive❔ Remember that Surface Pro is a different level of tablet compared to what Android tablets, and iPads are capable of... You get what you pay for, and if you want the smallest sleekest, lightest PC it's gonna have a premium price... You guys need to put into perspective what the Surface pro really is..

The reason for tablets was because people didnt want to lug around a laptop as it was bulky and hard to hold. Even ultrabooks arent that portable if you think about it. The laptop shape was not for ultra-portability. The reason for tables IS NOT competitive pricing

DOA. When will they learn that no one gives a crap about these overpriced slates made by Microsoft themselves when you could A. Buy or create a super desktop with specs that absolutely destroy these or B. Buy or create a Laptop that will have equal or better specs that embarrass these. I know one thing. I personally could never justify my purchase of this.

So are you saying something is wrong with the hardware quality of the surface pro? On what planet do you get a brand new haswell processor and an ssd in that form factor for any less? You don't expect them to sell at a loss do you?

well...its not just about weight of surface pro 2...but it's weight compare to other tablets and weight distrubution...I have held surface RT and Surface Pro and iPad4 back to back and felt Surface pro is heavy...had it been I never held light tablet (Surface RT or iPad)...i would never realize Surface Pro is heavy!!!

It's weight compared to other tablets is not an issue, for the simple reason that the surface pro market and the ipad market are completely different. Your mistake is equating the pro to an ipad. They are completely different. One is a powerful ultra-book, the other is just your average runoff-the-mill tablet.

Well...point of surface pro is to have a ultra-book like functionality in tablet form...so size and weight comparison is justified...MS could have used Y-series haswell chip to reduce size, weight and achieve fanless design...cant understand why they went with chip with 15w tdp.

-_- heavy? really? the smallest amount people could call heavy would be >2.5kg. Im so pissed off at people saying its too heavy. Same with phones. Why do you want a super light phone anyways or a super light tablet? It's not like people call alot nowadays and youll probably have the tablet on your lap or on the table most of the time.

People just don't get that Intel core comes at a price.
The chip alone costs many times more than what the A7X in the upcoming iPad does.
For example, the snapdragon 800 in the new Note 10.1 costs less than 50$, yet providing a perfectly sufficient performance for every task it can do.

Microsoft can only dream about gaining market share with products like this.
The math just don't work

The last time I checked, samsung was selling the 16GB wifi version of the galaxy Note 10.1 for $499 (where I live anyway), making it $50 more expensive than the Surface 2. Let's also not forget that the Note 10.1 has half the amount of storage, no MS Office suite, and most importantly, no software support beyond 18 months (something a lot of the android fanboys oftwn forget).

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